CSV of uk towns

[getvisible]

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Hi does anyone have a csv of uk towns ,ideally:

county, town?

the data will be used on a recruitment site if you're worried about competitive use.

Cheers,

Lee

[futureweb]

I have a string of counties if thats any good i then split the string into an array then loop through and insert into a database you could change this no problem to insert into a csv file.

[Malcolm Cowley]

Hi Lee

Ill have a quick look on Monday as I think we may have something which we got for someone else ages ago .

Ill drop you a mail if I can dig it out on Monday

Mal

[lowndsy]

Slightly different approach, but I have counties by abbreviation and their postcodes, with coordinates. Got a nice script to go with it that works out the distance between two postcode areas (like W12 and ST3)

[Keith]

Hi Lee

Came across this which might be what you need http://ukgaz.oxhut.co.uk/ havn't download it so dont know how good (or bad) it may be

[dmorison]

Unfortunately there is no county mapping, and it is a LOT of data but you might be able to do something with the USGS (United States Geological Survey). Scroll down for the UK datafile....

http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html

Note that the country files are tab, not comma separated. You probably then want to filter the data down first by "Feature Classification" = "P" (Populated Place), and then by "Populated Place Classification", which is numeric value from 1 to 5 representing the "significance" of the populated place.

May be of no use but might help a bit!

Added: Just noticed that the source in Keith's post is based on this data set with the added benefit of county mapping....

[ian]

You'll have to do a bit of work in excel - http://www.ukvillages.co.uk/ukvillag...20of%20England



Ian

[phildarv]

i have a list of town & village names here:

http://www.atomic78.com/townnames.xls

You may need to do some work as there are some duplicates to filter (sorry no counties assigned)

[ukperson1]

You can also try: UK list of all cities, towns, and villages in the UK, including data such as latitude, longtitude and partial postcodes.